The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, February 24, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 12

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lJP 'TtfceBfaTy to tne abolition or pnvuegeci-class-xule,low wages, poverty and ankindred social ills.We are prepared to show-good results from small local changes inthat direction which have been madein various parts of the world.We are convinced that the socialevils apparent today are largely dueto our institutions rather than to individuals or classes; in fact, -thatevery individual and every class Ismade in a large degree what .he. or itis by our institutions.We therefore feel that any actionwe can take to draw the attention ofthinking people to the evils of suchinstitutions as the taxation of theproducts of labor and its inevitableattendant, private ,property"in land, Isthe shortest road to the goal we .arealt striving for (all but the privilegedfew) that adjustment of economicaffairs that will give to the worker"the full product of his toll, which, inthe present advanced state of industrial development means the right tomuch leisure for all-around developmentthe right to life in iis fullness. I. D. Doolittie, 3236 Polk stUNEMPLOYED There has beenan awful lot of talk about the unemployed here lately and that Is aboutas far as it goes.To relieve tie unemployed the. proper thing to do IS ttt have Mayor Harrison appoint, a committee. Saidcommittee may get together, thechances being against its doing so. JTnen said committee must organize,and map out a plan, elect officers,have a lot of stationery, books andother red tape, and all of a suddenthey find out there is no money left,"so it Is allowed to die a natural death.Of course, there is no way to. startwidening 12th st., or any of the improvements they have been askingmoney .for. That would be doingsomething that would give some peo-pe.work and that Is what the bigbjusineas firms do Jjot want us to.have until they get higher rates forI the railroads and other measures forthe others.A while ago it was freight ratesthat would tart the. wheels of commerce. You see how fast they aregoing now and you also heard aboutthe poor railroads not being able to.start any work until the people firstpay for itWe have been getting promises solong that it would be quite a shockto get anything else. We get a wholelot of bunk on different ways to helpthe unemployed. At one time it issubways, then boulevard links, recreation piers, home colonies tor theworking class, farms for the unemployed and then comes the jitney bus.-Somebody wants to cut a melon. StillI Jielieve the idea is good.And nowcomes the brightest of all.I don't remember who started it, but Isee Willie Hearst has taken it up, 'soit must be good. Judge for yourself.This Is the Idea:It seems the merchants and traders are getting low -on stock, and Ieven notice some have been crowdedout, so all we need to do to bring onprosperity $ to buy whatever is leftand then these merchants can withyourmoaey order more goo4s fromthe factories.Said factories will then, be compellechto hiremore rasa and by andby we -will have more work and behappy.Simple is it not? Go to it Do itnow.Have you, noticed -that wheneveranything like this comes; Tip, when acommittee or investigation Is needed,they must always pick out broadminded men someone that knowshow to grind out dollars even If theycome from charging girls f drinking water". Instead, we would have abetter chance if they pioked outsomebodywith a long head. P. E. C.o o-New York otty has more telephonesthan Belgium, Hungary Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerlandcombined.